For whatever reason, Don Cherry used today as an opportunity to heave excrement on Paul MacLean’s decision to insert Jakob Silfverberg, a more accomplished and polished hockey product, for Mark Stone, a player who had a resounding 8 minutes and 43 seconds of professional experience.

With his reference to Silfverberg as ‘a guy from Sweden‘, Don’s philosophy of Canadian hegemony over the rest of the hockey world has clouded his common sense. We get that enough on Coach’s Corner, but now it’s apparently permeating his Twitter feed.

This argument that MacLean should have kept the game five winning roster intact just doesn’t fly.

While it makes for water cooler conversation, the insertion of either Stone or Silfverberg into the lineup was such an inconsequential decision. If the Senators were really depending on either one of these players to be key contributors in either of the last two games, then they had already lost.

A head coach should always put his best lineup on the ice to give his organization the best opportunity to win and in my opinion, Paul MacLean did just that. Unfortunately for MacLean, the players and the fans, it simply didn’t work out for our benefit.

Grapes brain is a flow chart with one question: Does this person have maple syrup flowing through their veins?